Gray Was in Custody on Way to Face Charges in Kentucky When Governor Orders New Hearing, Dec. 30, 1922

Hearing Today in Case of Gray. . . Returned After Officer Started to Kentucky With Him

By the Associated Press

Raleigh, N.C., Dec. 29—Governor Cameron Morrison will hold a hearing tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock on a request for the withdrawal of extradition papers previously granted by him in the case of William Bingham Gray, arrested at his home at the Bingham school in Mebane Tuesday on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses at Mumfordsville, Ky.

Gray was brought back to Raleigh this afternoon from Statesville where his trip to Kentucky in the custody of a Kentucky agent was interrupted by an order from the governor directing that the prisoner be returned to Raleigh for a hearing requested by the father of the prisoner.

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And from a column on political issues on the same page, an explanation:

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Governor Morrison’s reconsideration of the extradition of young William Bingham Gray, son of Col. Preston Gray of Mebane, to Kentucky in connection with charges of obtaining money under false pretense, has been receiving general approval here this afternoon. The name of Bingham as a school is held in respect here, and everybody wants the boy given the fullest sort of hearing.

Then, too, there is mixed with affection for the family of educators from which Gray comes the feeling that if there is anything wrong with the school that it cannot fail to reflect on the state as a whole.

From the front page of the Durham Morning Herald, Dec. 30, 1922